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qwerty456127 · 2019-12-08 22:12:22+00:00

By the way, isn't there an open-source desktop-native client for reading (and searching through) Reddit?

masklinn | karma 65147 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2009-09-07 16:56:42+00:00

There's an open-source Reddit client out there, if yc provided some kind of API (you don't want to do page scraping on the iphone) it would probably be pretty easy to adapt it.

_pmf_ | karma 2981 | avg karma 1.06 · | 2016-03-24 11:51:17

Interface would probably be nice for a Reddit client.

NicoJuicy | karma 10294 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2021-01-11 15:54:38+00:00

I crawled reddit in several topics.

It's supported through their api.

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fernandotakai | karma 2266 | avg karma 3.14 · | 2019-07-14 13:25:56+00:00

i wonder if someone will replicate the old reddit using reddit's api. i mean, there are full featured mobile clients, i wonder if the api licensing would allow it.

saint_fiasco | karma 1722 | avg karma 2.12 · | 2015-07-16 22:39:47

There is an open source distribution of reddit. Maybe that could be adapted to your new specifications?

O_H_E | karma 1534 | avg karma 1.84 · | 2019-01-27 04:30:48+00:00

Reddit have a Public API, thats how all these unofficial clients work. Don't know for sure if this site is using it. (It probably is)

pseut | karma 1156 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2013-03-25 10:24:28

To add to the other replies: reddit's open source as well[0] and reasonably straightforward to set up (at least using their Ubuntu installer). Not your question, I know, but thought I'd add for completeness.

[0] https://github.com/reddit/reddit

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frumiousirc | karma 312 | avg karma 1.68 · | 2017-07-05 11:23:56

A quick search finds at least two GNUS backends for reddit.

jimmyvalmer | karma 388 | avg karma 0.6 · | 2021-02-02 12:16:06

Gnus (the built-in emacs nntp reader) can read and write to reddit through https://github.com/dickmao/nnreddit.

digi_owl | karma 9592 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2018-04-12 19:25:41+00:00

I go with Redreader.

It may lack some niceties, but i find it gets the job done and is open source (and was originally built to cache sub-reddits).

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TazeTSchnitzel | karma 26116 | avg karma 2.81 · | 2012-10-27 00:02:59+00:00

Isn't that the non-public internal reddit API? They have proper APIs for other things, I think.

gkbrk | karma 2202 | avg karma 4.56 · | 2023-12-18 22:04:45

Reddit has an API and many clients.

toyg | karma 35240 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2020-04-09 16:13:49+00:00

Probably with the official Reddit API? There are several libraries for it.

gnulinux | karma 6001 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2018-06-01 05:23:30

You mean like 4chan? Also you can make your own reddit client, it has a pretty open API. So, you can make your own reddit client looking like HN.

kgc | karma 401 | avg karma 1.21 · | 2014-06-11 08:32:31+00:00

Why not just port to the Reddit codebase? The functionality seems similar.

dood | karma 2517 | avg karma 4.49 · | 2014-11-05 11:59:15

Reddit's source is available: https://github.com/reddit/reddit

justsomehnguy | karma 2268 | avg karma 0.79 · | 2022-09-21 19:49:54

Now open Developer Tools and go to www.reddit.com.

dredmorbius | karma 63069 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2023-06-23 03:05:25

Reddit was previously open sourced.

I've contributed code to the project.

(OP, FYI.)

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constantly | karma 1089 | avg karma 3.57 · | 2023-06-14 13:13:51

Not to worry, you can still search google/etc., which scrapes Reddit, or Reddit itself through its native search. No need to use an API explicitly to access content like that.